City of Bellevue Multi-Family Recycling Collection Services
The City of Bellevue contracts with Rabanco for the collection of multi-family residential recycling. The more you recycle, the less garbage you produce.
Service Problems?
Call 425-646-2492 or email us.
Prepare Your Recycling
! Contamination, such as one ceramic cup mixed in with recyclable glass, can ruin the whole batch and damage processing equipment. Make sure only recyclable items are put into the Blue Recycling Cart or Container! This will result in less items being disposed of as garbage and more items being manufactured into new products.
! Expanded Recycling Program includes Clothing and Linens. Please check with your property manager to find out if your multi-family complex participates in the Expanded Recycling Program. If your complex does participate, your property manager will tell you where and when to place your clearly labeled bagged materials.
Neighbors for Recycling
- Rabanco offers free training to apartment and condominium residents on how to promote recycling to their neighbors. Successful recycling programs include residents and property managers who work together to implement and monitor recycling, increasing participation and reducing contamination.
- To volunteer as a "Neighbor for Recycling," email Rabanco or call 425-646-2492.
Additional Recycling
- Special Collection Events
- The City of Bellevue holds two Special Collection Events each year, one in spring and one in fall, where many hard to recycle items are accepted.
- Large and Bulky Items
- Some local businesses accept large appliances, electronics, scrap metal, motor oil, Styrofoam peanuts and other materials not accepted in the program. Call Bellevue Utilities at 425-452-6932 or email for more information.
- Haul Recyclables to the Transfer Station (the Dump)
- Recyclable items can be hauled for recycling to a local transfer station operated by King County Solid Waste Division:
- Call 206-296-6542 for operating hours and directions
Why Recycle?
- Recycling makes economic sense! It's less expensive to recycle materials than to bury them in a landfill or burn them in an incinerator. If everything went into the garbage, garbage rates would be much higher.
- Recyclables are taken to Rabanco's Recycling Processing Facility in Seattle. Recyclables are sorted, baled and sent to recycling mills, where they are made into new products.
- Recyclables can be made into new products:
- Plastic bottles become new fleece clothing and carpeting.
- Plastic bags become new decking and building products.
- Cardboard becomes new cardboard.
- Tin cans become new rebar for construction projects.
- Newspaper becomes fruit packing trays and new paper.
- Glass becomes new glass bottles and jars.
- Aluminum cans become new aluminum cans.
- Recycling conserves natural resources and saves energy! Every ton of recycled paper saves trees, electricity and water, resulting in less air and water pollution than manufacturing a ton of paper from virgin wood pulp.
Preventing Waste is Even Better Than Recycling!
Before you buy, use or discard an item, ask yourself:
- Can I buy this with less packaging?
- Can I buy this made with recycled content?
- Can I use this again?
- Can I recycle this after I use it?
You can reduce waste by Reusing, Recycling and Buying Recycled.
